Nacho and the flying vacuum cleaner

Nacho and the flying vacuum cleaner:


Nacho is a twelve year old boy who lives in Barcelona. Today it's a pretty sunny day and Nacho doesn't want to go to his room to do homework, so he has decided to leave to walk to the Park and take advantage of the small Sun highlighted.


While walking towards to the Park, seemed you to hear a small little voice that came from a tree that stood next to the side walk.


Suddenly, on top of the glass of the tree he could verify the picture card of a small one to be that it was fighting not to fall down to the soil from the top of the tree.

-Sorry could you lend me a hand? -He said the strange little voice speaking to Nacho.


Nacho without leaving his astonishment turned into a tree and going up in a bank that was near the tree, with a quick gesture gave scope to the small being.

- Uf!! Thank goodness that I've picked up before falling - said the little dwarf.


- But who are you? -asked Nacho.


-Hello. Sorry. Let me to clean me a little boots and I stand. I'm Talin and I'm a dwarf dendrito - he said outlining a big smile.


-A denwhat? -said Nacho that not had just emerged from his astonishment.


- A dendrito. I Come from the planet of two moons, to approximately 10 000 kilometers light from here - Talín said. To what strange planet have I come?

-Hello. I'm Nacho and you've come to planet Earth. Here we are not dwarf dendritos, we are human.


-Well, gives equal. Already me well. You have many trees like this here on your planet?-said hopeful Talin.


-Because the truth is that not many. Increasingly there are fewer trees and plants on the Earth since humans are very concerned in constructing and constructing large high-rises and little respected the nature - explained Nacho to Talin.


-Then go. If you're good. I leave a planet close to the destruction to put me in another like - very sad Talin said.


-You want to say near the destruction? - Nacho asked curious.


-As you'll see. On my planet, the dendritos lived very happy and calm to occupying us our trees and our forests we are beings that we need to breathe the pure air of the fields and the mountains. But our tranquility was altered due to the attacks the green dragon that lives in the Hill of fire frequently on our forests.


-Long time ago our ancestors dendritos managed to make a pact with the green dragon. To change that does not attack them and that respected its forests and its habitat of life, wore him every day food. We the dendritos cultivate many vegetables and fruits in our lands and reserve a part of the harvest for the dragon. In this way, generation after generation we have lived in peace with the tranquillity that the dragon would never us attack thanks to the agreement that we had arrived with him.


- But now our calm days are over. While we do our agreement and we continue bringing him food to their large cave, he seems to have forgotten. Every day are more frequent attacks of fire toward our forest and our homes. We are forced to have to protect ourselves and to leave our houses that are destroyed due to atrocious fire bouncing through his mouth.


-One day after another dragon attacking us and already practically our great forest has disappeared and our small houses with him.


-Now we are forced to look for another planet that inhabit that we cannot continue life in our. -Talin explained in detail.


But it is not possible that you have to leave your planet for this reason. Cannot you look for another solution to prevent the dragon from following you attacking? - Nacho asked



We have tried everything, but the dragon does not listen to reasons. Suddenly it comes to the forest and in a desperate way it begins to throw fire for its mouth - Talín said.

-Well, since you've gone to fall to a planet not much better than yours, since here, although we have no dragons bouncing fire through his mouth that we have certain unconcerned and harmful humans who destroy our forests deliberately - said Nacho sadly.


- But here when there is a fire in the forests we can notify fire-fighters that they are the people responsible for eliminating fire that may occur in the forests as a result of human action or when they occur by accident - Nacho explained. Do not you have dendritos fire?

Do not. When the fire appears we are trying to stop it-based small cubes of water that we have reserved in a part of the forest, but are insufficient to be able to defeat the dragon fire, so we can only do one thing. Flee to the other side of the forest and wait for the fire of the dragon to lose strength. We then try to clean all the shrubs and bushes that are fully calcined and began to repopulate it again the forest. But this is time consuming and there is growing less forest dwelling - said Talin. Do you could explain me exactly how to eliminate fire the fire-fighters '.-said Talin.?
I can do something better. If you want I can accompany you to your planet and can tell how to be able to counter-attack the dragoon. I know many tricks - quite proud Nacho said to try to convince Talín who allowed him to accompany it to its country.


-Ok, but before you have to pick up my small ship of the tree - said Talin.


Having said that Nacho climbed through the trunk of the tree and grabbed there an object resembling a small-sized vacuum cleaner.


-Is this your ship? - asked curious.


-So-answered Talin.


-Because we have a problem. I can not upload me in it, I'm too big - Nacho said sadly.


-This is not a problem - said Talin. I have brought the shaman of the mountain mushroom. With it you can belittle you during the time it takes for its effect. When the effect is gone you will return to your size but for when that happens we already we will be my beloved planet - said very convinced Talin


Nacho looked not just of convinced that Tallin and with slight doubts he was introduced the mushroom in his mouth.
Suddenly it began to diminish of size up to reaching one that it was allowed him to be able to mount with Talín in its flying hoover.

Suddenly Nacho was transported through the air above the vacuum cleaner that began to reach speed and before that Nacho could realize, was surrounded by stars and satellites for all your around.


After a few minutes, the cleaner began to descend and approached ever closer to the planet of Talin.


From atop the planet looked devoid of joy and colour due to the attacks of the green dragon fury.


-We have already arrived - he said Talin to Nacho.


-Together they descended from the vacuum cleaner. Nacho was astonished to see that the planet was fully calcined. Had only survived a small forest in the most secluded of the planet part.


-It is a pity - said Nacho. We have to act quickly before the forest disappears completely and be impossible to repopulate it - Nacho told a Tallin that was something more hope ful.





When they arrived at the Nacho forest he saw gathered all the dendritos that sigh and sigh very sad and shocked by everything that was happening.

Talin presented to Nacho.


-Look, I present to Nacho - said Talin.


-He is a human being of the Earth that comes to us to tell how they do in its planet to counter-attack the fire and to brake it on time before it bothers(calcines) completely the forests - Talín said.


-AHH yes!!-Do your can help us put out the fire of the green dragon?-said the dendritos choir.


-Well, we can try to do one thing but I need your help - said Nacho. We have to realize together a big hose for which it is possible to shoot strongly water and to direct it to the mouth of the dragon when he the cove to throw its fire. This way, before the dragon could liberate the fire we will extinguish it and he will have to leave without hurting more to your forests - Nacho said.


- This way whenever he appears we will counter-attack with our hose its fire - it ended up specifying Nacho



After the explanations that Nacho gave to the dendritos they all began hands to the work. By means of different materials of the forest and guided by Nacho they prepared a big hose that they arranged at the beginning of the forests and as soon as the green dragon was appearing the dendritos were attacking him with the force of the water that was going out across the hose .He dragoon was fleeing frightened and with the mouth fuming as a result of the action of the hose that the dendritos had faced towards him.


And in this way, each time that the dragon appeared, the dendritos acted. But there came a moment in which the dendritos proved that this was not the right solution since they always had to be expectant and fearing that the dragon could appear at any time.


So they met again and together with Nacho, they decided that the best solution would be to investigate which it was the cause of that the dragon had these fury's attacks and that began to throw fire everywhere.

They decided that the next day they contained to the top of the hill where the green dragon lived in order to find the cause of his tantrums.

Talin, Nacho and some dendritos, arrived to the cave of the dragon. From there they could see the Dragon and study their behaviour. They were aware that temper tantrums of the dragon used to begin after ingested some food which they prepared. They thought that it was perhaps due to some food sat him badly. So they decided to change their diet by checking which foods were who could cause his attacks of rage.

They realized that food that did increase their tantrums were those that contained more sugar so they replaced the sugar cane, the mushrooms of starch and seeds of rice by other less sugary foods.


But the dragon was still having tantrums and often did not coincide with the hours of meals. Sometimes he got up early in the morning and began to give returns throughout the cave, groaning and banging rocks and stones on the inside of the Grotto.


-Perhaps you are sick - said Nacho


- Or you may have nightmares - said Talin.


At that time the dragon seemed to have them heard and abruptly turned towards them trapping Nacho with one of its claws.



Oh my God, no!!: It release evil dragon, allow it to set off! - desperado Talín was shouting


But the dragon kept on waving between its claws to the poor person Nacho that was afraid to turn into meal for dragon.


But suddenly the dragon with a gesture of pain and of surprise simultaneously liberated Nacho of its claws.

And the fact is that Talín with a big hedgehog spike had punctured the dragoon in its enormous bottom and this way it could have managed to liberate Nacho.

-Many thanks Talin. Let's go running into the forest. I have something to tell you - said Nacho.


The two ran the cave in direction to the forest and once there Nacho made them a revelation. While subject between the claws of the dragon, one of the occasions that this opened the mouth, Nacho could see a large caries in one of its wheels.


Decay was perhaps responsible for the tantrums of the dragon. Perhaps that is why he moved so hectic and showed so choleric. If they could get to eliminate your tooth decay it would stop producing the attacks so fierce that it performed on the forest.


So Nacho designed another plan again to try to liberate the dragoon of the pain that of course was provoking the caries. If it was stopping having pain, of course it would stop attacking the dendritos and the forests would stop being devastated by its atrocious fire.


Finally the dendritos thought that they would be useful when the dragoon was sleeping to get in its haunt. Once inside they would look for the moment to interfere carefully for its mouth and to tie the millstone with abig rope. The rope would go fastened to another end of the cave, of such a way, which was tense so that when the dragoon was waking up and doing the most minimal movement, it will stretch with the sufficient force as to do that the millstone was jumping over the airs and to liberate this way the dragoon of its torture.


As they had planned it the dendritos together with Nacho they started working and carefully they tied the rope to the millstone of the dragon. When this one woke up and got up sudden, the pull of the rope on the millstone did that its extraction and the dragon was taking place with a pain gesture, turned out to be finally liberated of its big caries.



From that moment the dragon returned to feel relaxed and happy and ceased to have temper tantrums that was causing your toothache pain.


The dendritos returned again to be calm and unafraid to be devastated by the fury of the dragon attacks.


Everyone thanked Nacho for the aid received.


-In all ways, we still have to do one last thing - said Nacho.


-So what? -They asked all the dendritos choir.


So that the situation does not turn(become) to reproduce, we have to prevent the dragon from having more caries again. So we will make use of the hose and will use to wash the mouth of the dragon after each of the meals that it realizes. Also it will be necessary to keep on taking care of its feeding - Nacho told in detail to the dendritos that they were listening attentively to its explanations. This way we will do double prevention, on the one hand we will avoid the caries of the dragon and with it also we will prepare(anticipate) that more fires appear - Nacho said laughing.



Like that it was as Nacho liberated the dendritos of the fury's attacks of the dragon. The dendritos as a token of gratitude gave a small hoover to Nacho, which although it was not capable of flying like the Talín hoover, would be a way of reminding its experience to him in its planet.


Next, Talín accompanied again Nacho to its house where its mom was waiting for him to have dinner.


After this experience Nacho it realized the importance that has the prevention, since it is better to avoid the causes of the problem before this one appears as they did with the green dragon, its caries and the fires.


And as he was thinking that he had liked very much the experience of extinguishing fires and of directing the hose, Nacho began to consider to study for fireman. One would turn into a big dragon fire extinguishers although in this occasion instead of being dressed in green as the dragon of the country of the dendritos the red one it would be its color.


Y colorin, colorado ..este cuento se ha acabado.

Mónica Zambrano. Los wikicuentos multiculturales.